Secretary, 39 North Mountain Ave.
Not having heard from Stu May lately I presume that the class dues campaign is moving along on a steady keel. As you know, the deadline was December 1, and if there are by any chance some of you who have not yet sent in your $4, I'm sure Stu would appreciate your taking care of this matter as soon as possible.
Some big news broke in the papers December 15 applicable to Chuck Bolte. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, and director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, announced that Chuck was one of 48 men named to receive a Rhodes scholarship.
The 48 men selected were chosen from 871 applicants, representing 233 colleges and universities. The successful applicants will enter Oxford University in October for a period of two years with the option of a third.
The awards were the first since 1938-39, when they were suspended for the duration of the war. Because of war time interruption, the number of awards was increased from the customary thirty-two to forty-eight, and for the benefit of men who were engaged in war effort the eligibility rules were extensively liberalized. By this it is meant that awards are ordinarily restricted to men at least nineteen years old, and not older than twenty-five, unmarried and with at least two years of college work. For war service candidates, however, the marriage restriction was set aside and the age limit spread from a maximum of twentyfive to thirty-one.
Dick Whittier who has been living at the Dartmouth Club, and working in New York, has taken a new position in Springfield, Mass. The Danny Provosts were presented with a pre-Christmas present on December 15—their second son, Richard Mark Provost. Marjorie and John Kelley were in New York for Christmas with their two little girls. The youngest, Barbara, was born October 2.
Ed Marks Jr., after graduating from Dartmouth, went to West Point and graduated there with the class of 1942, was married last August 31 to Miss Mildred Orra Ashmore of San Antonio. Ed served for 20 months with the 88th Division in Europe, and is now in Alaska on temporary duty.
Norm Jones has settled down in Burlington, lowa and is Credit Manager in the Drake Hardware Co. there. Jack Bowe is with Hamilton-Crawford realtors in Kansas City, Mo. Dick Borella is in the credit department of The Chase National Bank in New York. Dinajati Suriyong is back in Siam and any of you desiring to contact him may reach him % Paribatra Office, 233 Tanoa Road, Bangkok, Siam. Dr. Dick Sexton is at the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N. Y. Bob Taft recently left Curtis-Wright, and is now Assistant Manager of Spreens Department Store in Caldwell, N. J., Bob Chase is with U. S. Rubber Co. in Naugatuck, Conn., and Merle Perkins is a Teaching Fellow at Brown University. John McCuiston is with Bethlehem Steel Co. and may be reached at 1783 W. Union Blvd., in Bethlehem. Bill Freeman, out of the Navy, is now working for The Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. in Chicago.
Hadley Ward is with Schirmer-Atherton Co. in Boston and Dr. Gene Stollerman is at Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Mich. Jim Whitman Jr. is now in Appleton, Wise., with the Sales Dept. of FWD Auto Co.
In the December go issue of Time Magazine there is an interesting article about the new Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, N. H. One of the five teachers in the school is Dick Sawyer.
Received a nice note recently from Chuck D'Olive—and to my dismay a few days later found that Lew had scooped me in DFTDB on "The Olives" activities. Chuck always claimed that there was only one place to live California, and I can see he is sticking by his guns what with his present address of Alhambra, Calif. Chuck's wife, as you all may or may not know, is Larry Thompson's sister, Barbara.
That about winds things up for this month, as we have used the last scrap of news at hand. I hope the mail bag will be fatter from here on out. Trust I'll be hearing from all of you soon. I have nightmares thinking this column may end up all white space some month.
SUNSHINE and California balm make up the background for this picture of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Blodgett '40. The garden spot is Monrovia.
Secretary, 39 North Mountain Ave., Montclair, N. J.
Treasurer, 447 A Washington Ave., Brooklyn 5, N. Y.
